RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith?
September 12, 2016 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2016 at 8:03 am by Mr Greene.)
(September 10, 2016 at 12:07 pm)Mudhammam Wrote:(September 10, 2016 at 11:51 am)Mr Greene Wrote: The iconography of mythologies can tune-in a persons perceptions of the world around them to highlight particular aspects of it that may be significant though not easy to communicate to younger members of a society;What about the Deism of someone like Thomas Paine or Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which basically simply asserts that there is a Creator and that our actions will be rewarded or punished as is truly consistent with his benevolent character? Might some adults not benefit no less than some children?
eg. The importance of ravens to caribou hunters, highlighted in Norse iconography and indicating a carcass on the ground or possible predators in the area.
I don't hold much hope of finding anything similar in the Abrahamics however.
Personally I see Deism as nothing more than an excuse at the end of the Kalam non-sense. A failure to close the argument, nothing more. IIRC Deism says nothing to the character of the proposed creator so the position is merely speculative.
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